Texas will elect one U.S. Senator and 38 members to its U.S. House delegation.
Senator John Cornyn, a Republican, is running for reelection and has raised nearly $3M from individuals including self-financing; he faces a primary challenge from Attorney General Ken Paxton which is headed to a runoff. The race is considered “Likely Republican” by The Cook Political Report. James Talarico, who won the Democratic nomination, has raised over $40M. Fifty-eight percent of Talarico’s contributions take the form of small contributions.
Four Democratic incumbent women – Elizabeth Fletcher (TX-7), Veronica Escobar (TX-16), Sylvia Garcia (TX-29), and Julie Johnson (TX-33) – are running for reelection. Two Republican incumbent women are running for reelection: Monica De La Cruz (TX-15) and Beth Van Duyne (TX-24). De La Cruz, with nearly $2.6M, has the highest average total raised amongst all the women. Forty percent of her funds take the form of small contributions.
Of the U.S. House incumbents, the two Republican women reported a higher average total raised than the fifteen incumbent Republican men, whereas the average amount raised by the Democratic women is lower than the average raised by the Democratic men.
Only one U.S. House seat (TX-34) is considered competitive by The Cook Political Report. Both nominees – Representative Vicente Gonzalez (D) and Eric Flores (R) – are men.
Texas will hold primary runoff elections in late May. Representative Johnson (D) (TX-33) faces a challenge from Colin Allred (D); Allred has raised nearly $6.5M to Johnson’s nearly $1.5M. More than half (57%) of Allred’s funds come from small contributions.
In TX-38, which will also see a primary runoff, Republican Shelly Dezevallos has raised $878,111 for the “Solid Republican” seat with Republican Jon Bonck raising over $1.2M.
Across the open-seat races, the average raised by Republican women is higher than the average raised by Republican men; however, there are far fewer women running in these contests than men. The top fundraiser in contests for open seats is Republican Mark Teixeira (TX-21) with nearly $3.5M raised. Overall, Republican women are poorly represented as open-seat candidates in races that are expected to elect a Republican; this gender imbalance is also evident nationwide. In TX-9, Republican Alexandra Mealer, with over $1.4M, leads the money race in the primary runoff; the seat is considered to be “Solid Republican” by The Cook Political Report.
Within both parties, men running as challengers for U.S. House seats in Texas have a higher average total raised than women.
This statistic is the average total amount raised to date from individuals (including self-financing).
Republican men running for U.S. House open seats from Texas have the highest average proportion of self-financing of the gender and party candidate groups with 30%. Democratic women have a somewhat lower average percentage of funds from self-financing than Democratic men in open-seat House races in Texas.
Democratic women running in U.S. House open seats in Texas have a higher average proportion of funds from small contributions than their men counterparts. Republican women running in open seats have a lower average percentage of funds form small contributions than Republican men, though there are far fewer Republican women candidates in that group.
This statistic is the average amount from self-financing as a proportion of total raised (from individuals including the candidate) by candidate subgroup. Primary challengers to incumbents are excluded.
This statistic is the average amount of contributions $200 or less as a proportion of total raised (excluding self-financed contributions) by candidate subgroup.